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...lesson of these times is that free markets succeed where governments fail, Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is a very voguish thinker. Though his effort to revive his country's punch-drunk economy gets much less attention than the shake-ups transforming Eastern Europe, his monetary program . is every bit as revolutionary. To corset the bloated public sector and turn the economy over to the entrepreneurs, Collor has adopted policies more radical than anything attempted in Brazil in decades -- or perhaps ever -- since taking office on March 15. His approach, says Kenneth Maxwell, senior fellow at the New York...
...class of faster, higher and wilder roller coasters roaring onto the amusement-park scene this summer. Far more terrifying than rides of old, the megacoasters, with names like Viper, Iron Wolf and Georgia Cyclone, employ computer technology, ultramodern materials and aerobatics to deliver a plexus punch to those brave enough to step aboard. Park operators are also souping up old coasters and bringing others out of mothballs in a race to produce the terrifying rides. A total of 176 coasters are running in the U.S., up from 147 in 1978 and the most since the heyday of the 1920s...
...showing up in reproduction. In Nice, 1954, with the simplest means -- a few bars of awning-green and two shockingly vivid shapes, a red and a black, that may signify deck chairs or possibly buildings -- he could put you right in the middle of a Mediterranean summer. Still, the punch of the image, which would otherwise be merely schematic, is modulated by the ethereal tenderness of the paint...
...more than a third of the current U.S. arsenal of 12,000 warheads made it through the Soviet defenses, the nuclear punch would pulverize every Soviet city with a population of more than 25,000. Yet to satisfy Pentagon requirements for obliterating the Soviets' military and industrial capabilities, U.S. negotiators in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks have rejected Soviet proposals for drastic cuts in each side's arsenal of warheads...
...owning or selling semiautomatic firearms. In March he launched his attack on the state's tax structure, unveiling his $12.4 billion tax-and- slash budget. Anticipating that the state's liberal Supreme Court would soon order that aid to school districts be equalized, Florio beat the jurists to the punch by proposing his own plan. "Everyone is a bit shell-shocked," says former Democratic assemblyman Alan Karcher. "He had made a career out of being associated with safe issues...